you can do whatever you want, for a run I decided to go for pandering and the thing that changed from IRL USA are

- I invested in sustainable energy & recycling 

- give illegal immigrants pathway to citizenship as that allows them to pay tax thus giving me more budget

- legalized marijuana (already legalized in many states IRL anyways) which allows me to tax marijuana and gain budget (didn't get people out of jail bc the Shield voters didn't like that, nor did I create health standards as that also pushing away voters)

 - Canceled student debt because EVERYONE likes that

- Subsidized private health insurance further as overall voters like that 

- Increased tax caps as it only pushed some voters away a little bit

- Cultural integration program cause no one had a problem with that, after all anti-immigration tends to complain that they should be the ones assimilating into our society

- STEM (Artists must suffer as it doesnt positively nor negatively influence voters)

oh and I got a fun conversation between Minister of Defence & Press Secretary coming up with militaristic names for recycling resulted in more support